Israeli doctors said that epidemics are spreading in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the destruction of the energy and water infrastructure, expressing their fear that these epidemics will spread to Israel.

On Monday, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted a report prepared by senior doctors that epidemics are spreading in the Gaza Strip as a result of the destruction of the energy and water infrastructure there.

It explained that the disturbing report was signed by the Association of Public Health Physicians, and medical specialists from hospitals and universities in Israel.

According to data collected by international organizations that were able to enter Gaza and monitor the diseases spreading there, at least 312,000 people suffer from acute respiratory infections, according to the report.

In addition to at least 220,000 patients suffering from acute diarrhea, more than half of whom are children under the age of five, according to the same source.

It was also found that there were at least 6,600 cases of chickenpox in the Gaza Strip, in addition to a large outbreak of hepatitis A, according to the report.

Sewage

The broadcaster quoted Professor Nadav Davidovich, from the Public Health Doctors Syndicate, as saying in the report that the sewage flowing into the sea in Gaza will also move to Israel, and there is a danger that it will pollute its beaches. He added that epidemics know no geographical borders.

Davidovich warned of the possibility that animals could transmit diseases to Israel, and among other things, mosquitoes whose season will begin soon could carry and transmit diseases between people, thus causing infection.

In this context, the Israeli authority said that the researchers sent the report to the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, considering this a medical and strategic threat.

At the beginning of this March, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that about one million cases of infectious diseases had been detected in the Strip, which has a population of about 2.3 million, warning of the repercussions in the absence of the necessary medical capabilities, and calling on the United Nations to provide means of survival for the residents of the Strip.

As a result of the war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of the Gaza Strip, especially in the Gaza and northern governorates, are in the grips of famine, in light of a severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, with the displacement of about two million residents of the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years.

Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, massive destruction of infrastructure, and a famine that is now ravaging a number of areas.